problem with jar file(executable)

i have created executable jar file for my program pedit.java as follows

jar cvfm pedit.jar manifest.txt images *.class splash.gif

where images is a directory where the icons for toolbar are there,as my program is a editor...
my problem is that when i run the jar file the application is loaded succesfully but icons on the toolbar are not visible....

How are you loading the images? Hopefully with getResource (or getResourceAsStream) and not with File (or FileInputStream, etc) as the items in a jarfile are not Files, at least until the jarfile is unpacked.